Airbnb in Venice

Venice, which has 20 million visitors a year, is a city that is defined by the tourism industry.

Locals (55,000) are outnumbered by day trippers alone, and overnight tourists which have traditionally stayed in hotels (regulated), are now starting to stay in (unregulated) residential properties through platforms like Airbnb, further adding to an affordable housing crisis, and accelerating changes to the lived city.

According to Inside Airbnb data compiled on May 9th 2017, there are more than 6,000 listings in the Commune of Venezia, with more than 80% of listings located on the traditionally touristed historic island.

On the mainland, with a modest 1,015 listings, a relatively high percentage of listings (47% or 472) are "private" rooms, suggesting that Airbnb hosts are residents there - however on closer inpection, we see that 392 are multiple listings (83% of the mainland total for private rooms), listings where the host has more than one listing, which usually implies that the hosts are not just sharing their home(s), but running a full-time business, renting out multiple rooms.

On the islands of Venice, with 5,012 listings, the vast majority (3,997 or 80%) are for entire apartments. Almost 2,000 apartments (1,953) are estimated to be rented frequently (an occupancy of more than 90 nights per year) on average at €131/night for 195 nights of the year. Entire apartments on Airbnb rented frequently are most probably unlicensed hotels in residential properties.

Airbnb data for Venice

Inside Airbnb

A conservative occupancy model has been built in order to estimate Occupancy Rates, Income per Month and Nights per Year. More information on the methodolgy of the occupancy model can be found in the disclaimers.

Inside Airbnb: Venice uses the following parameters:

A high availability metric and filter of 90 days per year

A frequently rented filter of 90 days per year

A review rate of 50% for the number of guests making a booking who leave a review

An average booking of 3 nights unless a higher minimum nights is configured for a listing.

A maximum occupancy rate of 70% to ensure the occupancy model does not produce artifically high results based on the available data

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Other data

Acknowledgements

RESET VENEZIA

Inside Airbnb: Venice was released in partnership with RESET VENEZIA, a group of local activists whose goal is to infect the local political and cultural system with the virus of innovation and accountability.

RESET VENEZIA wants to link Venice with all those places in the world where there are talented individuals, groups, movements and laboratories where people are shaping a more sustainable future, and in the process try to find answers to the gangrenous problems that afflict their own town.

Availability

An Airbnb host can setup a calendar for their listing so that it is only available for a few days or weeks a year.

Other listings are available all year round (except for when it is already booked).

Entire homes or apartments highly available year-round for tourists, probably don't have the owner present, could be illegal, and more importantly, are displacing residents.

Only multi-listings

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multi-listings

Some Airbnb hosts have multiple listings.

A host may list separate rooms in the same apartment, or multiple apartments or homes available in their entirity.

Hosts with multiple listings are more likely to be running a business, are unlikely to be living in the property, and in violation of most short term rental laws designed to protect residential housing.